North Korea: Prioritize Dire Rights Situation
North Korea remains one of the world’s most repressive states despite recent diplomatic openings with South Korea, the United States, and other countries, Human Rights Watch said today in a… Read more »
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North Korea: civil society groups confront abysmal rights climate
The South Korean government should press the United States to discuss the appalling human rights situation in North Korea when US President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim… Read more »
North Korea’s Political Prison Camps: Testimonies of Detainee Families
An Investigation into the Human Rights Situation in North Korea’s Political Prison Camps: Testimonies of Detainee Families Presenter: JUNG GWANG-IL Founder and President, No Chain Discussants: To be confirmed Moderator: … Read more »
North Korean activists endangered
Along the North Korean border, dozens of missionaries are engaged in work that puts them and their North Korean converts in danger. In recent years, 10 such front-line missionaries and… Read more »
Preparing for North Korea’s authoritarian breakdown
If the regime of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was to collapse, whether from internal problems or external force, one of the most pressing problems facing the United States, China,… Read more »
Can civil society take root in North Korea?
Can civil society finally take root in the world’s most oppressive country? In November 2017, the National Endowment for Democracy hosted a former high-ranking North Korean diplomat for a… Read more »
North Korea’s regime concedes its vulnerability to soft power
North Korea’s regime has admitted its vulnerability to soft power “for the first time,” according to a prominent defector. An editorial in an official newspaper today conceded that information flows… Read more »
Use soft power to challenge Pyongyang’s grip on information, top North Korea defector says
A high-ranking North Korean defector is recommending that U.S. lawmakers greatly increase the dissemination of information inside the isolated country, saying funding for such efforts pales in comparison to U.S. military… Read more »
North Korea’s ‘Parallel Gulag’ exposed
The brutality of North Korea’s government is exposed in a ground-breaking new report on the regime’s political prisons and prison camps. The Parallel Gulag: North Korea’s “An-jeon-bu” Prison Camps… Read more »
Destined to collapse? North Korea’s Parallel Gulag
Is the North Korean regime destined to collapse? It is possible that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and perhaps even some subjects of his despotic rule, would rather be obliterated… Read more »